Industrial Automation Blog

Developing M2M

Machine-to-Machine communication is a term used for applications ranging from ultra-short range sensor couplings up to large automation networks. None of those pose problems in themselves, but difficulties have been known to arise at gateways to the internet.

Can you touch a cloud?

What’s more preferable to visit: CeBIT or embedded world 2011? That may have been a relevant question last week, since both trade shows took place quite at the same time last week. Well, that’s somehow hard to decide: It goes without saying that everything at CeBIT 2011 (1 to 5 March) revolves primarily around bits, bytes and innovative technologies, such as new smartphones and tablet computers.

SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2010: Box IPC with Core-Processor

The hardware transition from standard PC to industrial computing is going faster than ever before. Intel’s Core-I processors have replaced former generations rather quickly, since the Core architecture has some advantages that makes it well suited for IPCs. At the SPS/IPC/DRIVES in Nuernberg, many of those systems will be shown.

SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2010: Energy and Safety

Focusing on energy efficiency and Safety/Security, Moxa is going to exhibit products from its railway, public transportation, ITS, marine, factory automation, and power business segments at SPC/IPC/DRIVES in hall 9 stand 221.

Congatec discovers ECC

DRAM with error correction – ECC – has been around for many years, ensuring data integrity in servers as well as in scientific and financial computers. At the electronica show in Munich, congatec spokespeople tried very hard to leave the impression that they were the only company ever using ECC.

I was made for serving you

Hard Rock fans cry out loud: Kiss are silent these days? Calm down, this is neither about ballads nor about aging glam rockers, not even about Gene Simmons. KISS is for acronym for Kontron Industrial Silent Server, The PCI Express Butterfly Backplane of KISS 2U is equipped with up to four PCI Express x4 cards and one PCI Express x16 (PEG) card. According to Kontron it’s for highly-integrated industrial servers for complex visualization and image processing tasks.